The Leading Edge

The Leading Edge: Current news and information regarding global warming and climate change. Each report unfolds as the month goes on. So you can come back to the same page and see what is new. The report is finished at the end of the month. Please keep checking back to see the highlights as they unfold.

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Network Neutrality affects the Open Internet and the World Wide Web and how much control corporations have over what you/we can and can't see as well as how much it will cost you/us is about to be classified by the FCC. Broadband Discrimination is the key issue. Why Net Neutrality is important spans a variety of subjects from speed of information sharing, promotion of liberty, capacity for free market innovation and competition as well as national and international security issues that impact America.

December saw the annual gathering of the Fall Meeting of the American Geological Union in San Francisco; the release of Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds from the Director on National Intelligence office of the United States of America.